Creates a link aggregate channel on the NetScaler appliance or on a cluster configuration. Link aggregation combines data coming from multiple ports into a single high-speed link. Configuring link aggregation increases the capacity and availability of the communication channel between the NetScaler appliance and other connected devices.When a network interface is bound to a channel, the channel parameters have precedence over the network interface parameters. That is, the network interface parameters are ignored. A network interface can be bound only to one channel.

ID for the LA channel or cluster LA channel or LR channel to be created. Specify an LA channel in LA/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 8 or cluster LA channel in CLA/x notation or Link redundant channel in LR/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 4. Cannot be changed after the LA channel is created.

ifnum

Interfaces to be bound to the LA channel of a NetScaler appliance or to the LA channel of a cluster configuration.

For an LA channel of a NetScaler appliance, specify an interface in C/U notation (for example, 1/3).

For an LA channel of a cluster configuration, specify an interface in N/C/U notation (for example, 2/1/3).

where C can take one of the following values:

0 - Indicates a management interface.

1 - Indicates a 1 Gbps port.

10 - Indicates a 10 Gbps port.

U is a unique integer for representing an interface in a particular port group.

N is the ID of the node to which an interface belongs in a cluster configuration.

Use spaces to separate multiple entries.

state

Enable or disable the LA channel.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED

Default value: ENABLED

lamac

Specifies a MAC address for the LA channels configured in NetScaler virtual appliances (VPX). This MAC address is persistent after each reboot.

If you don't specify this parameter, a MAC address is generated randomly for each LA channel. These MAC addresses change after each reboot.

speed

Ethernet speed of the channel, in Mbps. If the speed of any bound interface is greater than or equal to the value set for this parameter, the state of the interface is UP. Otherwise, the state is INACTIVE. Bound Interfaces whose state is INACTIVE do not process any traffic.

Possible values: AUTO, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 40000

Default value: AUTO

flowControl

Specifies the flow control type for this LA channel to manage the flow of frames. Flow control is a function as mentioned in clause 31 of the IEEE 802.3 standard. Flow control allows congested ports to pause traffic from the peer device. Flow control is achieved by sending PAUSE frames.

Possible values: OFF, RX, TX, RXTX, ON

Default value: OFF

haMonitor

In a High Availability (HA) configuration, monitor the LA channel for failure events. Failure of any LA channel that has HA MON enabled triggers HA failover.

Possible values: ON, OFF

Default value: ON

haHeartbeat

In a High Availability (HA) configuration, configure the LA channel for sending heartbeats. LA channel that has HA Heartbeat disabled should not send the heartbeats.

Possible values: OFF, ON

Default value: ON

tagall

Adds a four-byte 802.1q tag to every packet sent on this channel. The ON setting applies tags for all VLANs that are bound to this channel. OFF applies the tag for all VLANs other than the native VLAN.

Possible values: ON, OFF

Default value: OFF

ifAlias

Alias name for the LA channel. Used only to enhance readability. To perform any operations, you have to specify the LA channel ID.

Default value: " "

throughput

Low threshold value for the throughput of the LA channel, in Mbps. In an high availability (HA) configuration, failover is triggered when the LA channel has HA MON enabled and the throughput is below the specified threshold.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 160000

bandwidthHigh

High threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. The NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message when the bandwidth usage of the LA channel is greater than or equal to the specified high threshold value.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 160000

bandwidthNormal

Normal threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. When the bandwidth usage of the LA channel returns to less than or equal to the specified normal threshold after exceeding the high threshold, the NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message to indicate that the bandwidth usage has returned to normal.

Removes an LA channel from the NetScaler appliance or a cluster LA channel from a cluster configuration.Important: When a LA channel is removed, the network interfaces bound to it induce network loops that decrease network performance. You must disable the network interfaces before you remove the channel.

ID of the LA channel or cluster LA channel or Link Redundant channel that you want to remove. Specify an LA channel in LA/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 8 or a cluster LA channel in CLA/x notation or Link redundant channel in LR/x notation , where x can range from 1 to 4.

ID of the LA channel or the cluster LA channel whose parameters you want to modify. Specify an LA channel in LA/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 8 or a cluster LA channel in CLA/x notation or Link redundant channel in LR/x notation , where x can range from 1 to 4. Required for identifying the LA channel and cannot be modified.

state

Enable or disable the LA channel.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED

Default value: ENABLED

lamac

Allows User to set MAC address for LA channels on Hypervised platforms.

speed

The speed for the LA channel.

Possible values: AUTO, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 40000

Default value: AUTO

mtu

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the largest packet size, measured in bytes excluding 14 bytes ethernet header and 4 bytes crc, that can be transmitted and received by this interface. Default value of MTU is 1500 on all the interface of Netscaler appliance any value configured more than 1500 on the interface will make the interface as jumbo enabled. In case of cluster backplane interface MTU value will be changed to 1514 by default, user has to change the backplane interface value to maximum mtu configured on any of the interface in cluster system plus 14 bytes more for backplane interface if Jumbo is enabled on any of the interface in a cluster system. Changing the backplane will bring back the MTU of backplane interface to default value of 1500. If a channel is configured as backplane then the same holds true for channel as well as member interfaces.

Default value: 1500

Minimum value: 1500

Maximum value: 9216

flowControl

Required flow control for the LA channel.

Possible values: OFF, RX, TX, RXTX, ON

Default value: OFF

haMonitor

The state of HA monitoring for the LA channel.

Possible values: ON, OFF

Default value: ON

haHeartbeat

The state of HA HEARTBEAT SEND config for the LA channel.

Possible values: OFF, ON

Default value: ON

tagall

The appliance adds a four-byte 802.1q tag to every packet sent on this channel. ON applies tags for all the VLANs that are bound to this channel. OFF, applies the tag for all VLANs other than the native VLAN.

Possible values: ON, OFF

Default value: OFF

ifAlias

The alias name for the interface.

Default value: " "

throughput

Low threshold value for the throughput of the LA channel, in Mbps. In an high availability (HA) configuration, failover is triggered when the LA channel has HA MON enabled and the throughput is below the specified threshold.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 160000

lrMinThroughput

Specifies the minimum throughput threshold (in Mbps) to be met by the active subchannel. Setting this parameter automatically divides an LACP channel into logical subchannels, with one subchannel active and the others in standby mode. When the maximum supported throughput of the active channel falls below the lrMinThroughput value, link failover occurs and a standby subchannel becomes active.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 80000

linkRedundancy

Link Redundancy for Cluster LAG.

Possible values: ON, OFF

Default value: OFF

bandwidthHigh

High threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. The NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message when the bandwidth usage of the LA channel is greater than or equal to the specified high threshold value.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 160000

bandwidthNormal

Normal threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. When the bandwidth usage of the LA channel returns to less than or equal to the specified normal threshold after exceeding the high threshold, the NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message to indicate that the bandwidth usage has returned to normal.

ID of the LA channel or the cluster LA channel to which you want to bind interfaces. Specify an LA channel in LA/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 8 or a cluster LA channel in CLA/x notation or Link redundant channel in LR/x notation , where x can range from 1 to 4.

ifnum

Interfaces to be bound to the LA channel of a NetScaler appliance or to the LA channel of a cluster configuration.

In case of standalone or HA configuration, Maximum 16 interfaces can be bound to a channel.

In case of Cluster configuration, Maximum 16 interfaces can be bound to a Node level channel and maximum 16 interafce from each node can be bound to a Cluster level channel.

For an LA channel of a NetScaler appliance, specify an interface in C/U notation (for example, 1/3).

For an LA channel of a cluster configuration, specify an interface in N/C/U notation (for example, 2/1/3).

where C can take one of the following values:

0 - Indicates a management interface.

1 - Indicates a 1 Gbps port.

10 - Indicates a 10 Gbps port.

40 - Indicates a 40 Gbps port.

U is a unique integer for representing an interface in a particular port group.

N is the ID of the node to which an interface belongs in a cluster configuration.

ID of the LA channel or cluster LA channel from which you want to unbind interfaces. Specify an LA channel in LA/x notation, where x can range from 1 to 8 or a cluster LA channel in CLA/x notation or Link redundant channel in LR/x notation , where x can range from 1 to 4.

ifnum

Interfaces to be unbound from the LA channel of a NetScaler appliance or from the LA channel of a cluster configuration.

For an LA channel of a NetScaler appliance, specify an interface in C/U notation (for example, 1/3).

For an LA channel of a cluster configuration, specify an interface in N/C/U notation (for example, 2/1/3).

where C can take one of the following values:

0 - Indicates a management interface.

1 - Indicates a 1 Gbps port.

10 - Indicates a 10 Gbps port.

U is a unique integer for representing an interface in a particular port group.

N is the ID of the node to which an interface belongs in a cluster configuration.

Displays the settings of all LA channels or of the specified channel. To display the settings of all channels, run the command without any parameters. To display the settings of a particular channel, specify the ID of the channel.

LA channel name in form LA/x, where x is channel ID, which ranges from 1 to 8 or LR channel name in form LR/x, where x is channel ID, which ranges from 1 to 4

unit

Unit number of the channel. This is an internal reference number that the NetScaler uses to identify the channel.

description

The IEEE standard that the channel is based on.

flags

Flags of this channel.

mtu

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the largest packet size, measured in bytes excluding 14 bytes ethernet header and 4 bytes crc, that can be transmitted and received by this interface. Default value of MTU is 1500 on all the interface of Netscaler appliance any value configured more than 1500 on the interface will make the interface as jumbo enabled. In case of cluster backplane interface MTU value will be changed to 1514 by default, user has to change the backplane interface value to maximum mtu configured on any of the interface in cluster system plus 14 bytes more for backplane interface if Jumbo is enabled on any of the interface in a cluster system. Changing the backplane will bring back the MTU of backplane interface to default value of 1500. If a channel is configured as backplane then the same holds true for channel as well as member interfaces.

actualMtu

MTU of the channel. This is the maximum frame size that the channel can process.

vlan

Native VLAN of the channel.

mac

MAC address of the channel.

lamac

Specifies a MAC address for the LA channels configured in NetScaler virtual appliances (VPX). This MAC address is persistent after each reboot.

If you don't specify this parameter, a MAC address is generated randomly for each LA channel. These MAC addresses change after each reboot.

uptime

Duration for which the channel is UP. (Example: 3 hours 1 minute 1 second). This value is reset when the channel state changes to DOWN.

downTime

Duration for which the channel is DOWN. (Example: 3 hours 1 minute 1 second). This value is reset when the channel state changes to UP.

reqMedia

Requested media setting for this channel. Since there is no media associated with LA, the displayed values carry no significance.

reqSpeed

Requested speed setting for this channel. Since no media are associated with LA, this speed is used to determine the threshold for the slave interfaces. If the speed of the member interface is less than the requested speed, that interface is considered inactive.

reqDuplex

Requested duplex setting for this channel. Since no media are associated with LA, the displayed values carry no significance.

reqFlowcontrol

Requested flow control setting for this channel. Since no media are associated with LA, the displayed values carry no significance.

media

Requested media setting for this interface.

speed

Actual speed setting for this channel.

duplex

Actualduplex setting for this interface.

flowControl

Actual flow control setting for this channel.

Mode

The mode(AUTO/MANNUAL) for the LA channel.

haMonitor

HA monitoring enabled or disabled for this channel.

haHeartbeat

The state of HA HEARTBEAT SEND for the LA channel.

state

Enable or disable the LA channel.

autoneg

Requested auto negotiation setting for this channel. Since no media are associated with LA, this setting has no effect.

autonegResult

Actual auto negotiation setting for this channel.

tagged

VLAN tags setting on this channel.

tagall

The appliance adds a four-byte 802.1q tag to every packet sent on this channel. ON applies tags for all the VLANs that are bound to this channel. OFF, applies the tag for all VLANs other than the native VLAN.

trunk

This is deprecated by tagall

taggedAny

Channel setting to accept/drop all tagged packets.

taggedAutolearn

Dynaminc vlan membership on this channel.

hangDetect

Hang detect for this channel.

hangReset

Hang reset for this channel.

linkState

The current state of the link associated with the interface. For logical interfaces (LA), the state of the link is dependent on the state of the slave interfaces. For the link to be UP at least one of the slave interfaces needs to be UP.

intfState

Current state of the specified interface. The interface state set to UP only if the link state is UP and administrative state is ENABLED.

rxpackets

Number of bytes received by all the slave interfaces of the channel since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared.

rxbytes

Number of packets received by all member interfaces since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared.

rxerrors

Number of inbound packets dropped by the hardware of the slave interfaces since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared. Possible causes of dropped packets are CRC, length (undersize or oversize), and alignment errors.

rxdrops

Number of inbound packets dropped by the channel's slave interfaces. Commonly dropped packets are multicast frames, spanning tree BPDUs, packets destined to a MAC not owned by the NetScaler when L2 mode is disabled, or packets tagged for a VLAN that is not bound to the interface. In most healthy networks, this statistic increments at a steady rate regardless of traffic load. A sharp spike in dropped packets generally indicates an issue with connected L2 switches, such as a forwarding database overflow resulting in packets being broadcast on all ports.

txpackets

Number of packets transmitted by slave interfaces of a channel since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared.

txbytes

Number of bytes transmitted by slave interfaces of a channel since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared.

txerrors

Number of outbound packets dropped by the hardware of a channel's slave interfaces since the NetScaler appliance was started or the interface statistics were cleared. Possible causes of dropped packets are length (undersize or oversize) errors and lack of resources.

txdrops

Number of packets dropped in transmission by a channel's slave interfaces for one of the following reasons:

Number of times flow control is performed on a channel's slave interfaces because of pause frames.

hangs

Number of hangs that occurred on the channel's slave interfaces.

stsStalls

Number of status stalls that occurred on the channel's slave interfaces.

txStalls

Number of Tx stalls happened that occurred on the channel's slave interfaces.

rxStalls

Number of Rx stalls that occurred on the channel's slave interfaces.

bdgMuted

Number of times a channel's slave interfaces stopped transmitting and receiving packets because of MAC moves between ports.

vmac

Virtual MAC of this channel.

vmac6

Virtual MAC for IPv6 on this interface.

ifAlias

The alias name for the interface.

reqThroughput

Minimum required throughput for an interface. Failover is triggered if the operating throughput of a Link Aggregation (LA) channel for which HAMON is ON falls below this value.

lrMinThroughput

Specifies the minimum throughput threshold (in Mbps) to be met by the active subchannel. Setting this parameter automatically divides an LACP channel into logical subchannels, with one subchannel active and the others in standby mode. When the maximum supported throughput of the active channel falls below the lrMinThroughput value, link failover occurs and a standby subchannel becomes active.

linkRedundancy

Link Redundancy for Cluster LAG.

throughput

Actual throughput for the interface.

bandwidthHigh

High threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. The NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message when the bandwidth usage of the LA channel is greater than or equal to the specified high threshold value.

bandwidthNormal

Normal threshold value for the bandwidth usage of the LA channel, in Mbps. When the bandwidth usage of the LA channel returns to less than or equal to the specified normal threshold after exceeding the high threshold, the NetScaler appliance generates an SNMP trap message to indicate that the bandwidth usage has returned to normal.

ifnum

The interfaces bound to link aggregate channel.

backplane

The cluster backplane status of the LA. If the status is enabled, the LA is part of the cluster backplane. By default, the backplane status is disabled.

Time to wait for the LACPDU. If a LACPDU is not received within this interval, the NetScaler markes the link partner port as DOWN. Possible values: Long and Short. Long lacptimeout is 90 sec and Short LACP timeout is 3 sec.

lacpActorPriority

LACP Actor Priority. A LACP port priority is configured on each port using LACP. LACP uses the port priority with the port number to form the port identifier. The port priority determines which ports should be put in standby mode when there is a hardware limitation that prevents all compatible ports from aggregating.

lacpActorPortno

LACP Actor port number. LACP uses the port priority with the port number to form the port identifier.

lacpPartnerState

LACP Partner State. Whether the port is in Active or Passive negotiating state.

lacpPartnerTimeout

The timeout value for the information revieved in LACPDUs. It can have values as SHORT or LONG. The SHORT timeout is 3s and the LONG timeout is 90s.

lacpPartnerAggregation

The Aggregation flag indicates that the participant will allow the link to be used as part of an aggregate. Otherwise the link is to be used as an individual link, i.e. not aggregated with any other.

lacpPartnerInsync

The Synchronization flag indicates that the transmitting participant.s mux component is in sync with the system id and key information transmitted.

lacpPartnerCollecting

The Collecting flag indicates that the participant.s collector, i.e. the reception component of the mux, is definitely on. If set the flag communicates collecting.

lacpPartnerDistributing

The Distributing flag indicates that the participant.s distributor is not definitely off. If reset the flag indicates not distributing.

lacpPartnerDefaulted

If the timer expires in the Expired state, the Receive Machine enters the Defaulted state.

lacpPartnerExpired

If the LACPDUs are received for timeout period, the Receive Machine enters the Expired state and the timer is restarted with the timeout value of SHORT timeout

lacpPartnerPriority

LACP Partner Priority. A LACP port priority is configured on each port using LACP. LACP uses the port priority with the port number to form the port identifier.

The port priority determines which ports should be put in standby mode when there is a hardware limitation that prevents all compatible ports from aggregating.

lacpPartnerSystemMac

LACP Partner System MAC.

lacpPartnerSystemPriority

LACP Partner System Priority. The LACP partner's system priority. The values for the priority range from 0 to 65535. The lower the value, the higher the system priority. The switch with the lower system priority value determines which links between LACP partner are active and which are in the standby for each LACP Channel.

lacpPartnerPortno

LACP Partner Port number. LACP uses the port priority with the port number to form the port identifier.

lacpPartnerKey

LACP Partner Key. The LACP key used by the partner port.

lacpActorAggregation

The Aggregation flag indicates that the participant will allow the link to be used as part of an aggregate. Otherwise the link is to be used as an individual link, i.e. not aggregated with any other.

lacpActorInsync

The Synchronization flag indicates that the transmitting participant.s mux component is in sync with the system id and key information transmitted.

lacpActorCollecting

The Collecting flag indicates that the participant.s collector, i.e. the reception component of the mux, is definitely on. If set the flag communicates collecting.

lacpActorDistributing

The Distributing flag indicates that the participant.s distributor is not definitely off. If reset the flag indicates not distributing.

lacpPortMuxState

LACP Port MUX state. The state of the MUX control machine. The Mux Control Machine attaches the physical port to an aggregate port, using the Selection Logic to choose an appropriate port, and turns the distributor and collector for the physical port on or off as required by protocol information.

lacpPortRxStat

LACP Port RX state. The state of the Receive machine. The Receive Machine maintains partner information, recording protocol information from LACPDUs sent by remote partner(s). Received information is subject to a timeout, and if sufficient time elapses the receive machine will revert to using default partner information.

lacpPortSelectState

LACP Port SELECT state. The state of the SELECT state machine, It could be SELECTED or UNSELECTED.

lldpmode

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) mode for an interface. The resultant LLDP mode of an interface depends on the LLDP mode configured at the global and the interface levels.